- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:37:38 -0500
- To: Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>
- Cc: newsml-2@yahoogroups.com, www-international@w3.org
* Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com> [2006-02-24 14:28+0000] (nice to see this discussion happening...) > > [This mail forms part of a thread on how to represent people's > names in NewsML 2. To join the newsml-2 list, go to > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newsml-2/ > The NewsML 2 specs etc are available at: > http://www.iptc.org/NAR/1.0/] > > In reponse to my previous mail, I received a number of comments > along the lines of "I don't have a baptismal name". For folks > unfamiliar with the principles of NewsML 2, I'll briefly say that > syntax such as: > > <name scope="scp:baptismal">Norma Jeane Baker</name> > > means that the string "Norma Jeane Baker" is an instance of what > NewsML 2 might call a "name", that this name has what NewsML 2 might > call a "scope" and that this scope has a value "scp:baptismal", > which expands to (eg): > > http://www.some.uri#baptismal > > where one might find a definition of "Baptismal name". > > It does *not* mean: > - that everyone has a baptismal name > - that the members of the NewsML 2 Architecture WP have baptismal > names > - that the main use of NewsML 2 will be to exchange news about > people who have baptismal names > - that the Moon is made of green cheese > > Every NewsML 2 producer is free to define their own terms or to > adopt terms defined by anyone else. For example; > > <name>Theodor Herzl</name> > <name scope="scp:hebrew">Binyamin Ze'ev Herzl</name> > > where "scp:hebrew" expands to (eg): > > http://www.some.uri#hebrew > > or: > > <name scope="foo:hebrew">Binyamin Ze'ev Herzl</name> > > where "foo:hebrew" expands to (eg): > > http://www.someother.uri#hebrew > > The other main class of comments concerned xml:lang. Yes, the > proposed "name" element will accept xml:lang. > > I'll now return to the discussion of names. I've pretty much left > parts 1 and 2 the same, but have substantially changed parts 3 and 4. > > I see four orthogonal axes (which can be combined as required): > part, scope, formality, purpose. XML attributes aren't repeatable. Does this nicely suit yor intended meaning, or is it a purely syntactic restricution? eg. could a single name string have 2 or more values for 'formality'? Or do you intend the values for each axis (including their extensions) to be mutually exclusive? Dan
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